James Johnson
35–35 · 66 recorded bouts · 1909–1918
35–35–13
James Johnson finished 66% of 35 wins inside the distance — the 81st percentile for 1910s boxing, where the median is 42%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Jim Johnson (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-03
How this record is compiled
- Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-03. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one. - A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
- A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
- Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 47 1910s boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
Bout record
Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | L | Joe Jeanette | Decision | — |
| 1918 | L | Sam Langford | — | 8 |
| 1918 | L | Kid Norfolk | — | 4 |
| 1917 | L | Sam McVey | Decision | 25 |
| 1917 | W | Jeff Clark | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1917 | L | Tango Kid | DQ | 8 |
| 1917 | L | Harry Wills | — | 10 |
| 1917 | L | Sam Langford | Decision | 12 |
| 1916 | L | Sam Langford | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1916 | W | Lowe Simms | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1916 | L | Joe Bonds | Decision | 10 |
| 1916 | W | Jack Thompson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1916 | W | Kyle Whitney | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1915 | D | Jack Thompson | Decision | 10 |
| 1915 | D | Jeff Clark | Decision | 15 |
| 1915 | L | Sam Langford | Decision | 15 |
| 1915 | L | Andre Anderson | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1915 | D | Soldier Kearns | Draw | 10 |
| 1915 | L | Harry Wills | — | 10 |
| 1915 | L | Sam McVey | — | 10 |
| 1915 | W | Joe Jeanette | — | 10 |
| 1915 | D | Joe Battling Woods | Draw | 10 |
| 1915 | W | Arthur Pelkey | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1915 | W | Fred Jackson | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1914 | L | Sam McVey | — | 10 |
| 1914 | D | Joe Jeanette | Decision | 12 |
| 1914 | D | Sam Langford | Decision | 12 |
| 1914 | L | Porky Dan Flynn | Decision | 12 |
| 1913 | D | Jack Johnson | Decision | 10 |
| 1913 | W | Jim Esson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1913 | ? | Kid Jackson | — | — |
| 1913 | W | Bob Scanlon | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1913 | W | Gustave Marthuin | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1913 | W | Con O'Kelly | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1913 | L | Joe Jeanette | DQ | 15 |
| 1913 | W | Tom Overby | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1912 | W | Bill Tate | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1912 | W | Tom Overby | — | 6 |
| 1912 | W | Black Bill | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1912 | L | Joe Jeanette | — | 10 |
| 1912 | W | Bill Watkins | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1912 | W | Chuck Carleton | — | 6 |
| 1912 | L | Fred Storbeck | Decision | 20 |
| 1912 | W | Tom Cowler | Decision | 15 |
| 1912 | L | Alf Langford | DQ | 3 |
| 1911 | W | Dennis Haugh | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1911 | L | Matthew Curran | DQ | 4 |
| 1911 | L | Alf Langford | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1911 | W | Seaman George Pascall | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1911 | W | Jewey Smith | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1911 | W | Fred Drummond | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1910 | L | Sam McVey | KO/TKO | 21 |
| 1910 | W | Gustave Marthuin | Decision | 10 |
| 1910 | W | Jim Maher | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1910 | W | Alexandre Meunier | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1910 | D | Tom Overby | Draw | 6 |
| 1910 | W | Morris Harris | — | 6 |
| 1910 | L | Sam Langford | — | 6 |
| 1910 | D | Tony Ross | Draw | 6 |
| 1910 | D | Al Kubiak | Draw | 6 |
Showing 60 of 66 recorded bouts, most recent first.
23 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Jim Johnson (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-03
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 71″ (180.3 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | not recorded — compared by era instead | |
| Most active decade | 1910s — 64 of 65 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for James Johnson, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
35–35
84 bouts on record
Finish rate
66%
of wins ended inside the distance — 1910s boxing median 42%, 81st percentile
The career, bout by bout
66 recorded bouts from 1909 to 1918. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
10y
1909–1918
Longest unbeaten run
6
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1910
13 bouts
Recorded bouts
66
65 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is James Johnson's record?
- 35–35–13 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 66 bouts individually.
- How many of James Johnson's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 66. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
- Does a no contest change a record here?
- No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
- What happens when sources disagree about a fight?
- This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.
